I love to immerse myself in a good family saga so I picked up Leila Meacham’s new title Roses to read. Meacham’s family saga follows the three most wealthy and powerful families of a small east Texas town from 1914-1985. The Toliver family owns a large cotton plantation, the Warwick’s are timber barons, and the DuMont’s are merchants. The story follows three generations of these families through war, depression, forbidden love, betrayal and a family curse with the focus on the middle generation of Mary Toliver, Percy Warwick and Ollie DuMont . The book is divided into three sections and told through three different character’s point of view.